[kaba0]

Very tongue in cheek answer, but then Jesus dying for our sins is unfair to the newborn baby that was yet to sin (stolen from a bad meme).

I honestly don’t get why we have so little empathy. Just because it sucked for me, I want to suck it for other people as well? Crabs in a buckets mentality is utterly harmful to everybody except those outside that bucket wanting to eat us.

[yeeyeeyee]

>no empathy

Look, my comment was about

(1) a possible explanation for the administration to choose a 10k flat vs. the proposed percentage based structure by the parent comment and

(2) identifying that having college cost a lot of money is an incentive that forces people to use it in order to get a job that makes a lot of money and (theoretically) contribute to the national productivity, which is good for the government

Nobody wants it to suck for other people. There are X costs involved in paying staff, you pay Y for tuition and the state government subsidies Z, maybe like half. Getting into college is competitive; it's a scarce resource that you outcompeted someone else for.

Snce you had to compete to get into that crab bucket, what about empathy for the people you excluded by doing this and, say, left out for the sharks. Easy to have empathy for the maybe 30% who actually go to a 4y university.

[effingwewt]

You are advocating for perpetuating the problem, while saying 'what about the people who don't go?' (paraphrasing).

College should be free, available to all.

Decrease the administrative bloat, fix the professor's pay, etc.

The way it is now, overwhelmingly the well-off are the ones able to attend the university of their choice, thus getting the job of their choice.

The gatekeeping by Ivy League schools should be abolishee.

That would fix the wealth-captivation/gatekeeping, and help those excluded from 4 year universities.